On Thursday 18 July 2024, the Mbombela High Court overturned the 2021 decision by former Mpumalanga MEC responsible for Environmental Affairs, MEC Vusi Shongwe, to exclude four properties from the Mabola Protected Environment. This ruling blocks the development of a...
Samson Mokoena showing tar emerging from sampling boreholes on his hands after a VEJA monitoring exercise. Photo by James Oatway supplied by Centre for Environmental Rights. Samson Mokoena and the struggle for a clean environment in the Vaal By Victor Munnik ...
A tribute to the life of Samson Mokoena (2 August 1976 – 28 June 2024) by Bobby Peek A couple of weeks before the World Summit on Sustainable Development in 2002, I got a call from Samson Mokoena, who introduced himself via his links with environmental justice...